Acolytes of Nature
¥447.34
Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of "e;science"e; itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "e;science,"e; naturwissenschaft, was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however, the term was in use everywhere. Acolytes of Nature follows the emergence of this important new category within German-speaking Europe, tracing its rise from an insignificant eighteenth-century neologism to a defining rallying cry of modern German culture.Today's notion of a unified natural science has been deemed an invention of the mid-nineteenth century. Yet what Denise Phillips reveals here is that the idea of naturwissenschaft acquired a prominent place in German public life several decades earlier. Phillips uncovers the evolving outlines of the category of natural science and examines why Germans of varied social station and intellectual commitments came to find this label useful. An expanding education system, an increasingly vibrant consumer culture and urban social life, the early stages of industrialization, and the emergence of a liberal political movement all fundamentally altered the world in which educated Germans lived, and also reshaped the way they classified knowledge.
Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic
¥447.34
A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis's inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut's death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend it-which edition represents the real ChesnutTo what genre does this text belong?-may explain why the document largely has, until now, been overlooked in literary studies.Julia A. Stern's critical analysis returns Chesnut to her rightful place among American writers. In Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic, Stern argues that the revised diary offers the most trenchant literary account of race and slavery until the work of Faulkner and that, along with his Yoknapatawpha novels, it constitutes one of the two great Civil War epics of the American canon. By restoring Chesnut's 1880s revision to its complex, multidecade cultural context, Stern argues both for Chesnut's reinsertion into the pantheon of nineteenth-century American letters and for her centrality to the literary history of women's writing as it evolved from sentimental to tragic to realist forms.
New World Gold
¥447.34
The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spanish empire, but also it raised doubts and insecurities about the meaning and function of money, the ideals of court and civility, and the structure of commerce and credit. New World Gold shows that, far from being a stabilizing force, the flow of gold from the Americas created anxieties among Spaniards and shaped a host of distinct behaviors, cultural practices, and intellectual pursuits on both sides of the Atlantic.Elvira Vilches examines economic treatises, stories of travel and conquest, moralist writings, fiction, poetry, and drama to reveal that New World gold ultimately became a problematic source of power that destabilized Spain's sense of trust, truth, and worth. These cultural anxieties, she argues, rendered the discovery of gold paradoxically disastrous for Spanish society. Combining economic thought, social history, and literary theory in trans-Atlantic contexts, New World Gold unveils the dark side of Spain's Golden Age.
Science in the Marketplace
¥447.34
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority.But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around the latest books and periodicals.Science in the Marketplace reveals this other side of Victorian scientific life by placing the sciences in the wider cultural marketplace, ultimately showing that the creation of new sites and audiences was just as crucial to the growing public interest in science as were the scientists themselves. By focusing attention on the scientific audience, as opposed to the scientific community or self-styled popularizers, Science in the Marketplace ably links larger societal changes-in literacy, in industrial technologies, and in leisure-to the evolution of "e;popular science."e;
Economic Origins of Roman Christianity
¥447.34
In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion. For millions of people, it is an integral part of everyday life, reflected by a widely divergent supply of practices and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically, the marketplace has not always been competitive. While the early Common Era saw competition between Christianity, Judaism, and the many pagan cults, Roman Christianity came eventually to dominate Western Europe.?Using basic concepts of economic theory, Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert D. Tollison explain the origin and subsequent spread of Roman Christianity, showing first how the standard concepts of risk, cost, and benefit can account for the demand for religion. Then, drawing on the economics of networking, entrepreneurship, and industrial organization, the book explains Christianity's rapid ascent. Like a business, the church developed sound business strategies that increased its market share to a near monopoly in the medieval period.?This book offers a fascinating look at the dynamics of Christianity's rise, as well as how aspects the church's structure-developed over the first millennium-illuminate a number of critical problems faced by the church today.
Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic
¥447.34
Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic.Though the U.S. Constitution made deliberation central to republican self-governance, the ethical emphasis on group deliberation often conflicted with the rhetorical focus on persuasive speech. From Alexis de Tocqueville's ideas about the deliberative basis of American democracy through the works of Walt Whitman, John Dewey, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., Gustafson shows how writers and speakers have made the aesthetic and political possibilities of deliberation central to their autobiographies, manifestos, novels, and orations. Examining seven key writers from the early American republic-including James Fenimore Cooper, David Crockett, and Daniel Webster-whose works of deliberative imagination explored the intersections of style and democratic substance, Gustafson offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language can contribute to political life.
Mosaic Constitution
¥447.34
It is a common belief that *ure has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in The Mosaic Constitution, arguing that Moses's constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central to early modern writings about government and state.Hammill shows how political writers from Machiavelli to Spinoza drew on Mosaic narrative to imagine constitutional forms of government. At the same time, literary writers like Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, and John Milton turned to Hebrew *ure to probe such fundamental divisions as those between populace and multitude, citizenship and race, and obedience and individual choice. As these writers used biblical narrative to fuse politics with the creative resources of language, Mosaic narrative also gave them a means for exploring divine authority as a product of literary imagination. The first book to place Hebrew *ure at the cutting edge of seventeenth-century literary and political innovation, The Mosaic Constitution offers a fresh perspective on political theology and the relations between literary representation and the founding of political communities.
Sojourners in a Strange Land
¥447.34
Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise.Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe's scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist's many incarnations in late imperial China.?
Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages
¥447.34
In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking her cue from Bonaventure, the thirteenth-century scholastic theologian and philosopher who provided the first sustained account of how the philosophical imagination could be transformed into a devotional one. Karnes examines Bonaventure's meditational works, the Meditationes vitae Christi, the Stimulis amoris, Piers Plowman, and Nicholas Love's Myrrour, among others, and argues that the cognitive importance that imagination enjoyed in scholastic philosophy informed its importance in medieval meditations on the life of Christ. Emphasizing the cognitive significance of both imagination and the meditations that relied on it, she revises a long-standing association of imagination with the Middle Ages. In her account, imagination was not simply an object of suspicion but also a crucial intellectual, spiritual, and literary resource that exercised considerable authority.
Lichens (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 86)
¥447.14
Lichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain tops and sun-scorched coastal rocks. This book discusses all aspects of British lichens, revealing the secrets of their success. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com Lichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain tops and sun-scorched coastal rocks. This book discusses all aspects of British lichens, revealing the secrets of their success. The book begins by looking at how lichens have been used throughout history in medicines, dyes, food and perfumes. It then goes on to describe what lichens are, and how they grow and reproduce. A detailed survey is given of the range of habitats in which lichens can be found: on trees, rocks, heaths and moors, chalk and limestone, mountains, rivers, lakes, the coast, walls and buildings, most famously on churches and in churchyards. Gilbert also discusses the susceptibility of lichens to air pollution, and how they can be used to detect environmental pollution. The comprehensive, reader-friendly text, over 150 illustrations and 16 pages of colour, combine to make Lichens the definitive work on this subject of great natural history interest.
Gone Series Complete Collection
¥447.09
This collection contains all six books in New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's breathtaking dystopian sci-fi Gone saga. These page-turning thrillers invoke the classic The Lord of the Flies along with the horror of Stephen King. King himself said: "I love these books."In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else. . . .Michael Grant's Gone series has been praised for its compelling storytelling, multidimensional characters, and multiple points of view. Included in this collection are: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light.
戴逸文集·以史为鉴(套装共6册)
¥445.80
戴逸先生主要从事中国史研究,在清史、中国近代史领域尤有专长,他是国家清史编纂委员会主任,是中国当代少有的贯通清代前后期历史的清史研究大家。同时,他把清史放到世界背景下思考、讨论,学术视野开阔。无论是以其个人学术成果开拓重要研究领域,还是以其声望与影响推动中国清代历史研究的发展,他都卓有建树。国务院副总理马凯曾说:“戴逸先生和张卓元先生心怀祖国,言传身教,桃李满天下,取得了一系列优秀成果;他们几十年如一日,始终保持对学术的热爱和追求,不追风,不赶潮,独立思考,令人敬佩,令人感动。” 戴逸先生治学多年,笔耕不辍,其中《中国抗战史演义》作于1951年,在全国刚刚解放、不少人对中国共产党及其领导下的八路军、新四军在抗日战争中的中流砥柱作用不甚了解的情况下,这本普及型读物有着极大的社会效益。《中国近代史稿》是新中国成立以后先从思想理论角度撰写历史的近代史著作,梳理了整个近代史的脉络。从1978年起,戴逸先生用7年时间主持编写了70余万字的《简明清史》,摸清了清代历史的主要线索;在《1689年的中俄尼布楚条约》中,利用中、俄双方大量的官方档案和私人文献,再现了条约谈判的全过程,为中国政府处理中苏边境问题提供了珍贵的参考和备要,以崭新的思维方式开创了中国研究清朝边疆史的先河。2003年1月28日,清史编纂工程正式启动,戴逸先生受命担任清史编纂委员会主任。在纂修工作中实事求是,尊重历史,既要还原历史真实,又要反映时代精神,既要继承前人研究成果,又要勇于学术创新,既要理清中国历史的发展脉络,又要联系世界历史的发展。以史实为依据,去伪存真,去粗取精,避免主观臆断。要使新《清史》成为一部观点鲜明、内容充实、史料丰富、文笔生动的高水平的史书,尽量使思想性与学术性达到完美统一,使新《清史》成为传世佳作。同时,在编纂新《清史》工作中,注重培养出一批优秀的中青年清史专家。 所以说,戴逸先生著作等身,他的著作对学界和非专业大众读者都产生了深远的影响,这种影响经久不衰。而戴先生从未有过文集出版,他的著述散见各处,没有经过系统整理编排,尤其是主持编纂《清史》以来的文章尚未经过系统整理,这一直是学界一大憾事。此次出版文集,系统整理了戴先生治学之初至今的全部著述。《戴逸文集》拟选取其中有代表性的著述,包括专著、文章(专论、随笔、序跋)、讲演、采访记等等,分门别类后、按照时间排序,精编成10卷本的文集,总规模约700万字。因此这部《戴逸文集》的意义不言而喻,它既是戴先生多年治学的成果精华,也是后辈学人研究清史和近代史的之书。 《戴逸文集》对历史学学科建设具有重大意义,带有战略性、前瞻性,研究成果属国内一流水平,并具有相当大的国际学术影响。
川端康成名作名译系列:经典9册套装
¥445.50
《川端康成名作名译系列:经典9册套装》是诺贝尔文学奖得主川端康成的作品套装,收录了《雪国》《伊豆的舞女》《古都》《千只鹤》《睡美人》《山音》《花的圆舞曲》《阵雨中的车站》《藤花与草莓》9部川端康成创作生涯的代表作。 本套装采用知名翻译家叶渭渠、唐月梅的经典译本,并新增了叶渭渠关于相应作品的深入解读,以及川端康成生平年谱,以助于读者更好地了解川端康成和其创作。既能满足读者日常阅读需要,也具有收藏价值。 东方的美,都在川端康成的文字里;川端康成的文学精华,都在这9部小说里。 《雪国》:日本审美的教科书,读懂物哀之美 《伊豆的舞女》:大师成名之作,带你重拾生活的美感 《古都》:用一本小说,定义了这座千年古都 《千只鹤》:日本唯美文学的惊世之作 《睡美人》:对死亡的无奈,对青春的追怀 《山音》:读懂川端笔下的孤独与死亡 《花的圆舞曲》:川端康成经典短篇小说集 《阵雨中的车站》:川端康成经典短篇小说集 《藤花与草莓》:川端康成经典短篇小说集
列夫·托尔斯泰文集:全17卷
¥445.00
全集的思想与艺术力量,为世界文学留下不可磨灭的印记。珍藏《列夫·托尔斯泰文集》,承继一位杰出的大文豪、道德哲学家、社会改革家及思想家的精神遗产。本文集收录了托尔斯泰一生中的绝大部分著作,邀请名家持笔翻译,不啻是对托尔斯泰生命与作品的一次纵深展示。
古典文库·第一部(套装40册)
¥445.00
套装包含:《镜花缘》、《儒林外史》、《西游记》、《世说新语》、《水浒全传》、《聊斋志异》、《板桥杂记 幽梦影 浮生六记》、《子不语》、《三国演义》、《东周列国志》、《红楼梦》、《阅微草堂笔记》、《西厢记》、《智囊》、《桃花扇》、《封神演义》、《警世通言》、《牡丹亭》、《西湖二集》、《英烈传》、《老残游记》、《醒世恒言》、《官场现形记》、《喻世明言》、《十二楼》、《长生殿》、《初刻拍案惊奇》、《隋唐演义》、《无声戏》、《二十年目睹之怪现状》、《七侠五义》、《续小五义》、《小五义》、《说岳全传》、《孽海花》、《型世言》、《儿女英雄传》、《随园诗话》、《二刻拍案惊奇》、《二十四诗品》。 目录 镜花缘 儒林外史 西游记 世说新语 水浒全传 聊斋志异 板桥杂记 幽梦影 浮生六记 子不语 三国演义 东周列国志 红楼梦 阅微草堂笔记 西厢记 智囊 桃花扇 封神演义 警世通言 牡丹亭 西湖二集 英烈传 老残游记 醒世恒言 官场现形记 喻世明言 十二楼 长生殿 初刻拍案惊奇 隋唐演义 无声戏 二十年目睹之怪现状 七侠五义 续小五义 小五义 说岳全传 孽海花 型世言 儿女英雄传 随园诗话 二刻拍案惊奇 二十四诗品
Collecting the New Naturalists (Collins New Naturalist Library)
¥442.14
Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet. The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world with over 120 volumes published in nearly 70 years. Being a numbered series, with a very low print run for some volumes, New Naturalist publications have been and continue to be highly collectable. Second-hand copies of the rarer volumes, in very good condition, can command high prices. As such, there is considerable interest in a detailed bibliography and history of the series. Collecting the New Naturalists offers a detailed insight into the fascinating phenomenon that has gripped Britain since just after World War II and which reflects the country’s continued enthusiasm for wildlife and nature publishing generally. With previously unpublished in-depth insight into the workings of the series and its collectors, the book will comprehensively cover every aspect of the New Naturalists, from rare editions produced for Bloomsbury and the Reader’s Union to foreign editions, interviews with the iconic cover artists and well-known naturalists such as Nick Baker and Alan Titchmarsh telling the story of their own fascination with the series.
中国古代环境美学史套书(全7卷)
¥440.00
本书以不同时代的主要人物、天人关系、宇宙观念、家园意识、人居环境建设、环境美的鉴赏和体验等主要问题为线索,按先秦、两汉魏晋南北朝、唐代、宋代、明代、清代六个历史阶段行分述,系统梳理了中国古代环境美学的发生和发展历程,揭示了不同历史时期环境美学的基本内容和具有代表性的思想观,明确了中国古代以农耕文明为基础、以寄寓家国情怀、构建和谐自然的天人关系为目标的环境美学思想特色,同时结合城市、乡村、园林、建筑等实物遗存或考古发掘资料,对中国古代人居环境建设中的审美意识行了具体的解读。
法国通史套装(全六卷)
¥440.00
《法国通史》(六卷本)是我国shou部多卷本的法国通史著作,围绕现代民族国家的诞生、发展及其演变这一重要的线索,紧扣三个重要的主题展:第一,法兰西共同体的诞生;第二,现代民族国家的形成、表现形式、内在特质及其历史意义;第三,世界格局视野下法国的国家命运与现实挑战。全书内容完备、谱系齐全,填补了我国学界对古代中世纪和“复辟王朝”“七月王朝”等领域的研究短板,突破了既有同类通史著作的局限性,为我国世界史学界提供了重要的学术参考。
世界文学名著典藏(第三辑25册套装)
¥440.00
世界文学名著典藏,不朽名作。春风 文艺出版社继续出版这套世界名著系列,本套数为第三辑,25本合辑。其中包括《月亮与六便士》、《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《傲慢与偏见》、《包法利夫人》、《名利场》、《了不起的盖茨比》等世界名著作品。
历史比小说还有趣:张宏杰 X 郭德纲等领衔主讲
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